I can’t see a picture if you posted one ?
I know (the pin feathers). I've been misting him all day as, wouldn't you know it our AC has quit working on one end of the house and isn't too good elsewhere. Of course it's the end he's in. We think it may be an duct end with failed tape. I understand they are pretty chintzy with these manufactured homes. It's almost 90 in here. It was only supposed to go to 79 today. George is crawling under the house now.
Do you need to trim their nails often?
I'd trim my Conures nails every 2 weeks like clockwork just to make sure they were in perfect shape. But I was able to do it myself so it maybe harder to stick to that time frame if you need to go to the vet to get it done.
It does look like he's sucking his thumb! I think Oscar's nails are too long. They are curled. He did a bit of chattering with me. We played a game of peekaboo and he began spinning the big toy by his high perch then peeking at me through the strings hanging on the toy as they spun (I'll have to take a picture). Then he would do this funny little kick with his leg while snapping his head around and saying the same word. I couldn't make out the word though and I still can't get him to move from that perch. It's like he's afraid to step onto the other perches and, even though he climbed up to the perch using the cage, it's like he doesn't realize he can climb over to another spot. That or it hurt him in some way to climb. I didn't realize how thick his beak would be. I did notice when I put the cage together that though it supposedly has 1/2" bar spacing, it doesn't seem as big a space as TD's cage and his is definitely 1/2". I'll have to measure it and I think it'd be a good idea to get him to a vet as soon as possible.
I'm with you! I quit cutting my dog's nails when the arthritis in my hands got so bad I cut both of their quicks. I take TD to have his done, twice the vet has made one of his bleed (two different vets, different places) so I think I will continue using the vet for TD and Oscar's nail cutting!
We live in a manufactured home and I had to deal with a similar situation with ours right after we moved in after closing. They are built as one, two, or three sections then they are joined together on site and finished out. The heating ducts run down the center or so of each part ane the furnace section feeds the other sections with insulated flexible vinyl pipe that runs to the other section to feed air to that side. Mine the house was abandoned for a while and animals and homeless people broke in and took it over. The flex pipe had a large hole chewed in it, and all the 90 degree ducting feeding from the furnace and from the plastic duct to the other half was rusted out with holes all over them.
Turns out the flood caused by the ruptured hot water line the day before somehow poured into the insulated , vinyl, flexible pipe that takes the air to the other side of the house. The weight of the water caused it to fall off completely. George spent awhile under the house (by this time it had started really pouring, bless his heart). He went under with a full roll of duct tape and came out with none). He found a lot of issues under there. When they set this house up they really cut corners. No giant hose clamp thingees... just thin, rusted wire and falling off duct tape everywhere. Sounds like we had it easier than you, though.
We had our AC freeze up like that once in the RV. It was the first and only time we had both left and left the boys (Charlie, Dusty and TD) alone for more than an hour. It was just last year in New Mexico and we had gone to look at a newer RV. We were gone for about 2 1/2 hours and when we returned it was 104 inside! I thought I was going to lose TD. We had that AC running everyday almost all day and that had never happened. It was very scary!
